Dear AD South African 'illuminating paraffin' has such an additive but I can't remember what it is. Prof Lloyd can perhaps comment (?) when he reads this. 'Power paraffin' (for engines) is the same thing without the additive.
Regards Crispin +++++ Dear Stovers, I take this opportunity to report an unsuccessful experiment of mine. In India, vegetable oil is used as fuel in oil lamps and nowadays they use kerosene as fuel in lamps. I mixed ordinary soap (sodium oleate) with the liquid fuel and lighted the lamp. I had this idea, that I would get a bright yellow sodium flame, having a much greater luminosity than the ordinary oil lamp or kerosene lamp. It didn't work that way. One apparently needs much higher temperature to get the sodium to glow. Yours A.D.Karve _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
